Door-catch



E. F. WANOUS.

DOOR CATCH.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.19,1920.

Patented J 11110 M, 1921 EDWIN F/WANOUS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

DOOR-CATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patent d J 14 1921.

Application filed August 19, 1930. Serial No. 404,615.

T all whome't may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. WANOUS, a citizen of the United States residing at Minneapolis, in the county of I-fennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door- Catches; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efiicient low cost door catch adapted for application to many different kinds of doors, but especially adapted for use on large garage doors; and to the above ends, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The device comprises two main elements, to wit, a pin supporting bracket and a catch pin pivoted or loosely jointed thereto at one end. When the bracket is properly appl ed to a door the free end of the pin will swing down into engagement with the ground, concrete base or floor, and will hold the door in open position. The pin supporting bracket is provided with a projecting lug or arm having a notch in which the free end portion of the pin may be placed when it is desired to throw the catch device out, of action.

The invention is illustrated in the accomanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a garage and showing my improved door catch applied to doors thereof, one of the doors being closed with the catch device in an inoperative position and the other door being swung open and with the door catch in an operative position;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the door catch removed from the door; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view partly in elevation and partly in section, showing a detachable pin cap applied to the end of the pin.

The numeral 1 indicates a garage having the customary swinging or hinged doors 2.

The door catch, as preferably constructed comprlses a pin supporting bracket made from a flat steel or iron bar 3 provided with out-turned ends affording ears or lugs 4 and 5. The ear 4 is perforated and the looped end of a strong iron or wood catch pin 6 is pivoted or loosely jointed thereto. The ear 5, on its upper edge, is provided with a notch 7 in which the free end portion of the pm 6 may be rested when it is desired to secure the pin out of action.

The bracket 3 is adapted to be secured to the door 1n proper position by screws 8, or the like, passed through perforations 9 in said bracket.

The bracket should be so applied that when the catch pin 6 'is dropped down, it Wlll engage the ground, concrete base, or floor, wh1le standing obliquely to a perpendicular, but at the proper angle to afford a base preventing closing movements of the door. For engagement with the ground, the free end of the pin 6 may be pointed, but for engagement with wooden floors, or especially with concrete bases, a rubber cap 10 may be frictionally tele-scoped onto the end of said pm. This rubber cap will not slip on a wooden floor or a concrete floor base, and moreover, will not mar a wooden floor, and much less a concrete base.

The door catchneed not be made in rights and lofts, because it will be operated on a door swinging in either direction, but, as shown, it should be applied a little nearer to the free edge of the right hand door than to the left hand door.

Obviously, the door catch described is of small cost, it may be quickly and easily applied to doors and will be found elficient for the purposes had in View.

What I claim is:

1. A door catch comprising a bracket and a catch pin swiveled thereon, said bracket having an outstanding lug with a seat in which the free end portion of said pin is adapted to rest to hold the same out of ac tion.

2. The combination with a swinging door, of a door catch applied thereto, said door catch comprising a pin supporting bracket having outwardly projecting ends, a catch pin loosely jointed to one out-turned end of said bracket, the other out-turned end of said bracket having a notch to receive the free end portion of said pin to hold the same out of action, and said bracket being applied to the door in such position that said, pin,

when dropped down, will engage the ground obliquely 3. A k or catch comprising a bracket and a catch pin swivelly connected thereto, said 5 bracket having an outstanding lug at one side of the connected end of said pin with a seat, the free end portion of said pin being adapted to swing laterally and disposed in said seat to hold the same out of action, and a cap telescoped onto the end of said catch 10 In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EDWIN F. WANOUS. 

